Excision of the knee-joint : a description of a new apparatus for the after treatment with illustrative cases / by Patrick Heron Watson.

  • Patrick Watson
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Excision of the knee-joint : a description of a new apparatus for the after treatment with illustrative cases / by Patrick Heron Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fecting it for more than half a century (even excepting the period of comparative oblivion into which it was permitted to fall), and still there are some who regard the procedure as far yet from the standard of perfected art. It may not therefore seem, I hope, a too ambitious effort which I would propose to myself, if I enter the field in which the greatest men of our age in surgery have been engaged, setting before me no greater work than that of gleaning after them, and endeavouring to add a little grain of practical experience to the great harvest wherewith their labours throughout a long day have been so deservedly crowned.